Agricultural drones startup with a DGCA-certified autonomous spraying drone, Bumblebee, which works across farms and plantations. Its AI-powered unmanned drones navigate low-altitude, obstacle-filled and GPS-degraded environments. It has completed 3,000+ autonomous missions for 200+ clients. It is also developing WASP, an autonomous aerial platform for industrial monitoring, security, surveillance and defence applications. $2.2M/₹20.5CR seed round led by Transition VC. Founded in Jan 2020, Bangalore based. Founders Kunal and Kevin are ETH Zurich alum ('18/'19). Kunal (IIT Roorkee '13) was a Research Assistant in the Robotics and Perception Group at ETH, after completing his Master's there. He is ex-Rio Tinto. Kevin (ETH Bachelor's '16; Master's 19) was also a Research Engineer in Robotics at ETH and is ex-Yellow Drones (Zurich based).

Quick-commerce platform for building materials, delivering plywood, paint, electrical, lighting, hardware and plumbing supplies across 2,000 SKUs in 30 minutes. The platform, which targets contractors, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, painters, interior designers and homeowners, launches commercially in September 2026 in Bangalore. $5.5M seed round from Accel, Fireside and Lightspeed. Founded in July 2026, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Shezan (architect from BMS College of Engineering '06; Columbia MBA '19) was the Co-Founder & CEO of interior design and renovations startup DesignCafe, which raised ~80M between 2012-24 and was acquired by HomeLane in 2024. Shezan stepped back from HomeLane this June 2026. Co-Founder Sachith (Shri G S Institute of Technology & Science '04; SPJIMR MBA '11) was SVP of Supply Chain & Business Operations at Zepto and Director - First Mile & Last Mile Design at Flipkart, amongst other roles. He was with Cummins India for eight years.

Formerly known as Unilodgers before a restructuring, this is a student-accommodation marketplace with over 2.5 million verified rooms across 25 countries. It offers online booking and housing network management, and plans to expand into student support services. $2M seed round, in a combination of equity and debt. Co-led by Saltwater Sutra and Nirmitsu Inspirational Ventures, with participation from angels Gautam Verlekar, Glen Fernandes, Richard McCallum, Ali Moosa, and existing investor Unilodgers. Founded in Jan 2011, SF based. Founder & CEO Vaibhav (Middlesex Univ. '07; Nottingham University Business School '08) first founded Aspire Overseas Education, providing college placements in the UK for Indian students, in 2009.

AI-led insurtech platform automating underwriting, claims, audits and document workflows for insurers. Its insurance platform, InsureMind, automates underwriting and claims by analysing policy documents. Its FieldSense platform uses computer vision feeds via drones, CCTV and sensor data to identify safety risks at industrial sites. ₹2.35CR seed round led by IPV. Founded in April 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Manoj (Ramaiah '11; Universität des Saarlandes '16) was Director of AI at Foundation AI (seven years, AI for law firms and claims departments) and is ex-Practo; CTO Shreyas (Global Academy of Technology '12) was Senior Technical Architect at Foundation AI (seven years) and is ex-Practo and Infosys; CPO Vidvath (Muffakham Jah College Of Engineering and Technology '17) was a Solutions Architect at Foundation AI (seven years).

Extracurricular learning platform (for musical instruments, dance and fitness) combining expert-led offline classes with its AI Practice Companion. Classes are held at home, in societies and schools. ₹1.6CR pre-seed round led by PedalStart. Founded in Jul 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: Tejasvi (IIT Kharagpur '09; ISB '16) was CBO at Brick & Bolt (tech enabled construction company) and is ex-HealthPlix, Byju's and Aditya Birla Fashion, first starting out at Schlumberger (five years); ; Varun (IIT Kharagpur '08; IIMA '18) ie ex-Capillary Technologies, WhiteHat Jr and OYO, after starting out at Schlumberger (nine years); Kritika (ICAI '15; DAVV University '21) is ex-Kimirica Hunter International (manufacturer of luxury amenities for hotels) and HealthPlix.

Causal decision intelligence platform which uses AI to help enterprises track their KPIs in real time and analyze root causes as metrics change. Clients include IRCTC, Plum, Dana Choga, Living Liquidz, Government e-Marketplace, and Noise. ₹2.5CR round from SucSEED, which last invested ₹1CR in Jan 2026. Prior to that the company had raised ₹5.2CR between July 2025 (an undisclosed amount) and Oct 2025 (₹4CR) from IPV and Venture Catalysts. Founded in Dec 2023, Mumbai based. Founder & CEO Vipul (SRM '14) was at BharatPe, most recently as zonal head for Mumbai, Goa and Gujarat, followed by Tijoree, a neobank where he led sales.

From "mirror" in Hindi. Context-aware AI hardware devices made for use with computers and smartphones. The first product to market is Dune, a three-key, context-aware keyboard which runs pre-set shortcuts. It can control the mic and camera in a meeting and run shortcuts or scripts based on the app users are viewing. The goal is to now learn what kind of tasks users actually want to automate. The company also developed two other devices, Radiance (tabletop remote for video calls) and Shift (a single tap button to trigger an AI agent to carry out a repeated task). Dune has been the most popular in user testing and will be shipped first, with all three devices being used to feed into the next product, which is undisclosed but will begin user testing. This fourth device will control and trigger agentic workflows (i.e. it is not focused on context capture like most AI devices in market). $5.5M seed round led by Redstart Labs (InfoEdge subsidiary and deep-tech venture arm) and 360 ONE. Other investors in the round: MIXI Global Investments, Antler, Blume Founders Fund, along with angels including Kunal Shah, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar (Razorpay) and Tikhon Bernstam (Scribd). The company was formerly known known as Project Mirage. Founded in Aug 2025, Bangalore/SF based. Founder & CEO Apoorv Shankar (IISc Masters in Design in Product Design and Engineering '17) founded LazyCo (hardware interface design) in 2017, which was acquired by Ultrahuman, where he subsequently became VP of Hardware (four years).

Business intelligence AI that pulls in all data sources to build dashboards with automated chart generation and analysis. For use across enterprises, by marketing, sales and finance teams. Positioned as a faster AI-native alternative to traditional business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau and Looker. Founded in Jun 2024. ₹60 lakh/$70K bridge round from angels including Amit Ashu (ex-Whatfix, who has also joining Othor as CPO), Avinash Kumar (EasyShip), Balasubrahmanyan Sridhara (NVIDIA), ahead of a planned seed round. $150K raised till date, including this round and $80K that was raised in 2025 from Vara Kumar Namburu (Whatfix), Madan Galla (TeleDNA), Mithun Nair (Ember and Oak). Founded in Jun 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: the CEO Unni (IIT Delhi) is from Whatfix and ran Foradian Technologies (EdTech ERP) for a decade; CTO Nekender joined straight out of college (Poornima University).

AI-native platform for autonomous Android and Linux device systems engineering. The goal is to build the standard AI tool teams reach for to build, debug, and maintain operating systems on new and existing hardware, from smartphones to vehicles, robots, and other embedded systems. At the center of the platform is Delta, an investigation engine that reads the specialized traces device engineers rely on. Generating revenue from beta customers. $2.55M pre-seed round, led by Founders' Co-op, with participation from Act One Ventures, TheFounderVC, Shorewind Capital, Clayoquot Capital, and Alumni Ventures. Seattle/Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Varun Chitre (Shivaji University '18) was Staff Software Engineer at Esper (mobile device management and custom OS solutions) for eight years; along with CTO Tarun Vashisth (BIT Mesra '13) who was Senior Software Engineering Manager at Esper for seven years.

Designs programmable gene-editing enzymes using generative AI, biophysics and wet-lab testing, which will be used in applications across agriculture and medicine. The goal is to reduce the time required to develop improved crop varieties through gene editing and support the development of therapies for genetic diseases. Instead of naturally occurring gene editing systems such as CRISPR Cas9, the company custom designs gene editing enzymes from scratch, which will be licensed to seed companies and theapeutic developers. ₹16CR pre-seed round co-led by Activate and Antler. Other investors in the round: Spectrum Impact, DeVC and angels Vijay Chandru, Paras Chopra, Sanjiv Rangrass and Vatsal Dusad. Founded in Sep 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: Tanay Lohia (NIT Silchar '19; LBS Masters in Management '20 drop-out) founded Brahmaputra Ogranics, a sustainable farm, out of college and was more recently Program Manager at Absolute (biotech research across agriculture, longevity and pharma); Dr. Kutubuddin Molla (University of Calcutta Master's Degree in Botany '08 and PhD in Genetic Engineering '14) has been a Scientist at ICAR-National Rice Research Institute in Odisha since 2015. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology at Pennsylvania State University from 2017-2019.